Sunday, 29 June 2014

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

What better to do on a Sunday afternoon than sit out on the balcony slinging cake bath bombs into the water table and making fizzy, coloured tea whilst wearing an big black hat? That pretty much sums our afternoon today!

Whilst Dooey was napping, I set up Wugs with the dry ingredients for our bath bombs for him to mix together, slowly adding the colouring and oil and pressing the mixture into silicon cake cups. I followed this recipe.

For the "tea", I brought out Wugs' plastic tea set and put droplets of food colouring into the cups, water in the teapot, vinegar in the milk jug and baking soda (which looked like sugar) in a dish. I gave Wugs step-by-step instructions on how to make the "tea" and (to my surprise, given the amount of excitement on the balcony this afternoon) he followed my instructions perfectly, letting out a big "Wow!" as the vinegar was added and the "tea" bubbled, fizzed and overflowed from the cups. Eventually all the tea was combined and the concoction looked closer to the colour of coffee than that of tea!

While all this was going on, Dooey was helping himself to the cake bath bombs that were sitting in the middle of the water table - picking them up and throwing them into the water and stirring the pink fizzy mixture around. Wugs joined in too, not the least bit disappointed that the cakes were bath bombs and not the real edible thing.

What we used:Bath bombsSilicon cake cupsWater tableBig spoonsTea setBaking sodaDistilled white vinegarFood colouringNote: Be careful what type of food colouring you use. I had two toddlers with pink hands for a good 24 hours after we did this activity.